Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24 / 5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 6 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core valuesStay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountableand are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Alpaca, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services. You will work closely with development, operations, and devops teams to build and maintain robust applications, ensuring they run smoothly and efficiently. This role requires a blend of software engineering and operations skills, with a strong ability to troubleshoot technical issues and resolve problems before they impact our users.

Things You Get To Do

• Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions
• Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)
• Incident Management : Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements.
• Collaboration : Work closely with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind.
• Capacity Planning : Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth.

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Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.